"haters gonna hate" 🎶

with @the_millions back from summer hiatus, i'm glad to return with this juicy essay from veteran editor ann patty on publishing in the 1970s and '80s, and the afterlives of the books she brought into the world themillions.com/2024/09/to-all…

Wow there are hurricane hunting drones now!

On newly minted Nobel laureate Han Kang's The Vegetarian by themillions.com/2016/02/taste-…

Wonder what Richard Brautigan would make of this

Looking into it...

This piece (not by me) in The Millions does capture a bit what it was like to work at Book Soup (~15 years before the action in this essay takes place). It's a special bookstore! themillions.com/2024/10/on-pro…

Okaaaaay 🤦

This is a profound insight

It's time for my most favorite end-of-year tradition. Year in Reading is back: themillions.com/2024/12/a-year…

People ask me why I haven't turned off the Nextdoor alerts and then I get something like this

Three months. 90+ books. Here's what we're reading to get through the winter. themillions.com/2025/01/most-a…

Yes - and then collectivize those chicken farms and expropriate the eggs!

Before that could happen, the California high speed rail plan was overtaken by events

Well ... fuck

My prompt to ChatGPT: "Generate a comic I might like" I DO like extremely dry Garfield comics

Moral of the story? Never go algorithmic timeline. Always reverse chron

Always so excited to dive into a new, big preview from @the_millions themillions.com/2025/07/the-mi…